Lauren Gilger

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Lauren Gilger is an award-winning journalist whose work has impacted communities large and small, exposing injustices and giving a voice to the voiceless and marginalized. She is dedicated to building community through storytelling and believes everyone has a story to tell.

Gilger worked as an investigative producer and reporter for ABC15 News in Phoenix after earning her master’s degree in broadcast journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2011, where she was named Outstanding Graduate Student.

She was the recipient of the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013 after her work forced one of the world’s largest automakers to recall more than 700,000 SUVs.

Her work has uncovered the systemic separation of immigrant families in the detention system, put pressure on the FDA to review a controversial form of birth control that has injured women worldwide, and exposed the backlog of untested rape kits in the country’s sixth-largest metro area.

In the Valley, Gilger has worked as a contributor for the Phoenix New Times and a clerk at the East Valley Tribune. Nationally, her work has appeared in the Washington Post and on ABC’s Nightline.

She earned her undergraduate degree from Fordham University, studying French, visual arts and American Catholic studies.

Journalism is in Gilger’s blood. She grew up in newsrooms as her mother worked at newspapers across the country.

Title Author(s) Publication Date
Phoenix approved $1M to keep its largest homeless shelter open. The director says it isn't enough Lauren Gilger Feb. 26, 2024
Artist Jacob Newman looks at Phoenix with fresh eyes — and draws it Lauren Gilger Feb. 26, 2024
Saguaro Land: What do we do when people love our desert too much? Lauren Gilger Feb. 23, 2024
Tips from a master gardener: What to plant right now in Phoenix Lauren Gilger Feb. 22, 2024
New bill could end local bans on cruising in AZ Lauren Gilger Feb. 22, 2024
She became Polo Ralph Lauren's first artist in residence with her intricate Navajo weaving Lauren Gilger Feb. 21, 2024
These housing bills are finding support in divided AZ Legislature Lauren Gilger Feb. 21, 2024
Medical marijuana market continues to shrink while recreational sales rise Lauren Gilger Feb. 21, 2024
Asylum seekers must now provide their own interpreters. Advocates say that's impossible Lauren Gilger Feb. 21, 2024
Menopause inspired new non-lethal rodent control Lauren Gilger Feb. 20, 2024
Arizona, other states taking up mantle to pass paid family medical leave Lauren Gilger Feb. 20, 2024
Tucson is bracing for street releases of migrants Lauren Gilger Feb. 20, 2024
FAFSA issues could keep more students out of college Lauren Gilger Feb. 19, 2024
Díaz and Roberts: Board of Supervisors held the line against election deniers, but 2 are leaving Lauren Gilger Feb. 19, 2024
Violinist wants to make music more immersive for the performer Lauren Gilger Feb. 16, 2024
This TV reporter says he never missed out by staying in Arizona Lauren Gilger Feb. 15, 2024
How Flagstaff became a mecca for distance runners Lauren Gilger Feb. 15, 2024
How low vaccination rates are raising concerns with measles and COVID-19 Lauren Gilger Feb. 15, 2024
How new bill would create way for rural communities to regulate groundwater Lauren Gilger Feb. 14, 2024
TikToker makes recipes etched on gravestones Lauren Gilger Feb. 14, 2024
AZ senators failing at immigration reform for decades Lauren Gilger Feb. 14, 2024
'The People's Open' went too far this year, so what's next? Lauren Gilger Feb. 14, 2024
AZ House speaker: New national monument takes important land decisions away from states Lauren Gilger Feb. 14, 2024
Galentine's Day is everywhere. Where did this trend start? Lauren Gilger Feb. 13, 2024
People in this town say a new clean energy project will drain their wells Lauren Gilger Feb. 13, 2024

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